Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Hello everyone, and welcome to another week on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. This week, we are announcing the winner of Challenge Twenty One. The winner of our £15 prize to spend at Chocolate Baroque is Regina, whose card was drawn by Random.org as the overall winner. Congratulations Regina, we hope that you enjoy your prize.

Please email Lesley on lesley@chocolatebaroque.com so that she can organise your voucher. You can also display our Winner's badge on your blog, details of how to obtain the badge can be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page.

Our Top Three this month have been chosen by our Design Team, who have had a tough time choosing just three entries from such a superb selection of entries. The Top Three in no particular order are:

Congratulations ladies, you can display the Top Three badge on your blog. Details of how to obtain the badge can be found on the FAQ tab at the top of this page. Well done to everyone who entered, and we hope that you will enter into our current challenge. You can find the details here.

We have some more Design Team inspiration to share with you this week.

Vronnie has created a couple of cards using a favourite stamp set, simply varying the layout and colours slightly, to create different effects:

Asha's pretty bird-themed card has a lovely Spring feel in the zingy colours that she has used:

Thank you so much for your projects girls, we hope that they will inspire you to create something and join in the current challenge yourselves.

We will be back next week with more projects from the Design Team, but until then, we look forward to seeing your entries. If you have any questions, and cannot find the answers on the blog pages, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new challenge on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. Thank you so much for your support during the past month, we have enjoyed reading your comments, and appreciate your visits to the blog.

We will be announcing the winner of Challenge Twenty One next week, so if you entered the challenge last month, please be sure to check the announcement to see if you are the winner of our prize.

As a reminder to those of you who have visited our blog before, and for anyone who is new to the blog, our challenges are monthly, based on an inspirational photo and a colour swatch. A new challenge is launched on the third Wednesday of every month. You can use any medium to create your projects; inks, paints, pens, pencils, etc., as long as you stick to the colours from the colour swtch in your project.

We are offering a monthly prize of £15 to spend on Chocolate Baroque stamps to one lucky winner, who will be selected by Random.org from all of the entrants who have used Chocolate Baroque stamps currently available from the website. We welcome entries incorporating other stamps and images, but they will not be eligible for the prize. All entrants will have the chance to be selected as one of our Top Three, and can then display our 'I made the Top Three at Chocolate Baroque' badge on their blog.

We have a pretty new colour palette for you to play with this month, and we have some fabulous inspiration from the Design Team girls that we will be sharing with you over the coming weeks. Here is the colour swatch for the new challenge:

The challenge will close at 12.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th May 2016, and the winner will be announced on Wednesday 25th May 2016. Here are some inspirational projects from the Desigm Team for you:

Magda has used a flower from one of our Indian themed stamp plates on her card and added stencilling to the background:

Thank you so much girls for your inspiration using the new challenge colours. We hope that they will inspire you to create a project yourselves, and join in with the challenge. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our challenge blog team. You can get in touch by sending us a private message. Details are at the end of this blog post, below the comments section.

We hope that you enjoy the new challenge, and look forward to seeing your projects, Judith xx

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Hello everyone, and welcome to our final week of the current challenge on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. Thank you for your lovely comments throughout the month, we look forward to reading what you have to say, and appreciate your support so much.

This week, we are taking a look at some of the entries that we have received for the current challenge, and showcasing just a few of them on the blog. We have had lots of fabulous entries from you, and hope that you have enjoyed using the colours in the current combination. Well done to those of you who have used colours that you do not normally choose, who knows, maybe next time around will see you back inside your comfort zone!

We hope that you enjoy the selection of entries that we have chosen to share.

Carole has created a very elegant card, using a Mackintosh panel stamped three times:

Sharon's pretty floral card has a vellum overlay to create a soft background:

Penny has created a very dramatic moonlit scene for her peacock image. The deep colours show off the iridescence so well:

Kate has used some delicate stamping over a harlequin stencil to create a fabulous background for her main floral image:

Some super paper weaving by Janny can be seen on her card, to create a background for her sea creatures:

Thank you ladies for your creativity, your cards are all fabulous, and show a great diversity of styles and techniques.

Thank you to everyone else who has entered the challenge this month, and we hope to see lots more entries from you before the deadline next week. There is still plenty of time to enter, and you can find a link in this post. We will be back next week with a brand new challenge, and lots more inspiration for you. If you have any questions and cannot find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Hello everyone, and welcome to another week on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. Thank you for the stunning entries that have been coming in for the challenge so far, we hope that you are enjoying the current colour scheme, and the inspiration provided by the Design Team each week for you. We hope that if you have not entered already, that you will take part, and share in the creative fun this month. You can add your project to the link in this post.

We have a free download from Lesley for you this week, and she has created a fabulous design for you to use in your projects. This background is suitable for so many different creations, both masculine and feminine, and the Design Team girls, have made some lovely projects for your inspiration.

Please do not pass the image onto others, but send them back here to collect the freebie for themselves. To obtain your free download, please click on the image below. Once you have enlarged the image on your screen, right click the image, choose the option, 'Save As', and save the image to your computer. You can now print the image onto a variety of surfaces for your crafting projects.

The Design Team have been making some projects for your inspiration using the free download. Claire's pretty card combines an individual scenic stamp with some floral stamping. The sepia tones blend so well with the background.

Dominike has used our newest Babushka stamps to create some little tags- so cute!

We hope that we have inspired you to use this fabulous download yourself. If you do make something using one of Lesley's downloads, why not upload a picture to your blog, or our Facebook page? We would love to see what you have made.

We will be back next week with another post, but in the meantime, we look forward to seeing your entries for the challenge. Don't forget, if you have any questions, and you cannot find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

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A very warm welcome to the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We love crafting and stamping in particular and we love to share and encourage you to have a go.

We hope that you will be inspired to get your stamps inked up, make some time to play and end up with a creation you are proud to share with us all.

Please take a look around - we have tabs at the top that give you lots of information about how our challenges work and if you have any questions at all, please use the Contact page to get in touch and one of the team will get back to you.